The Labor enquirer., 1887-03-05
That IS What the People or the
Northwest Coast
Will Be.
A Manly Letter From william
Christie Of Tacoma Upon
the Situation.
The Efforts Of the Ihucs Of The Seunl
to Fill the Prisons witA
Honest Hen.

For the ENQUIRER.
TAcoAA, Feb. 1S.-On or sbout the
hrst day Of March. eleven men, cltisens
OF Tacoma. will be placed On trial, for
~hatf For exercising the privileges Of
American citizens, free speech, free, -
semblaee, and for making burning
protest against the existence Of the most
dsmnable. degrading social cancer ever
inflicted on the body politic-ths
Chinese curse.
A trifle over . year ago. in the city Of
Seattle, there assembled . congress Of
the people, composed Of representa-
from labor organisations. iarmen' clubs
and precincts. In this congress West
ern Washington territory was we'll rep.
resented and it was probably the only
congress that has convened In America
for MANY years. atrue congress of the
people. This congre Q met for the sole
purpose of dealing s.ernlv with the
Chinese curse BY the removal Of their
presence. Loud.mou.hed, windy poh.
ticians from thousand platforms had
chanted their old detestable methods
to the disgust of the people; woman
and children were starving for the want
Of bread, and the commerce Of our fair
CITY appeared to be operated for the
benefit Of the Chinese alone: In the
country the situation was still worss,
the farmers unable to compete with
these moon-eved heather were growing
desperate ; something had 70 be done at
once. Something was done. The
Chinese. by resolution passed ct that
congress, were given thirty days 10 leave
the several precincts of Washington
territory. Remember this wss . CON.
gress Of the people. 1t was the govern
ment, itself superior to all courts, writ,
ten laws or constitutions. The deleestee
returned n their homes. Committees
Of 6ffeea werc chosen in each Locality.
The committee Of fifteen we're chosen
at Tacoma and Immediately notified
the Chinese ofthe wishes of the people.
At that time about l 200 Chinese were
in the city ;thirty.four days after the con-
gress there were none. Tacoma and its
county we're and have besn since free,
free from the curse. This committee
now stand indicted with 100 others
mentioned in the same indictment
whose names were to the grand jury I'M.
known, and are SOON to be tried for CON.
spiracy against the government in
other words the courts are going try and
prove that they conspired to overthrow
themselves. These men are guilty Of
no crime they were the chosen repre-
sentatives Of the people, and In perform
ing those duties we're and are not indi-
vidually responsible; the people Of
Washington territory will be on trial, It
is their defense, not the men indicted.
And if the people ever allow these
indicted men of Tacoma, through any
periured testimony or fraudulently-
packed jnrv. to 60 to the penitentialy,
they. are set Of base ungrsteful COW.
ards.
But In the writer's opinion they will
not; too many noble hearts beat in uni
son with humanity's Cause to stand such
contemplate foolishness. and one may
well think that when wholesale arrests
are being made as is now threatened.
the world may hear something crack
in the far Northwest, shove the din Of
capitalistic jubelo-iubelum and 1t will
not be toy pistols or 6re.crackers.
The women Of Washington territory
have been disfranchised BY . base con.
spiracy Of the supreme court. There
fore the above indictments are probably
void as women served on the grand Jury
that indicted. But that will make no
difference. The capitslistic mill will bs
set again in motion for the third time
to grind out contemplate lies against
our citizens In the shape Of "trus hills"
etc.
Yes, they can d. all this, but Chinese
and Pinkertan detectives will never
find home in Tacoma, and don't you
forget it. w, CHR,sr1R
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